Sasha Altaf | Slow Art Walk
Spend an afternoon with the artworks in Alserkal Avenue.
Aligned with alternative ways of being and understanding, Slow Art Walks invite visitors to take the time to slow down and reflect, not to rush to unpack. For the closing weekend of Alserkal Art Week, we will be joined by critical voices from the arts—both emerging and established—to welcome you to deepen your engagement with contemporary visual arts at Alserkal.
On November 21, Sasha Altaf will lead a Slow Art Walk.
We'll meet in The Yard.
Bio
Sasha Altaf is Director of the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, where she leads the Foundation’s curatorial vision and institutional development. With over three decades of experience across contemporary art, her practice is grounded in research and sustained engagement with questions of feminism, gender, history, memory and the politics of representation, particularly within South Asian art.
Prior to Ishara, Altaf was Head Curator at Volte Art Projects, Dubai, Director of Talwar Gallery, New York, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Miami. Her curatorial practice spans exhibitions, archives and interdisciplinary research, with a particular interest in expanding the ways South Asian artistic practices are situated within broader global histories and contemporary discourse.
She is the author of ALTAF: The Journals (1963–1973), published by DAG, and contributes regularly to international art publications and catalogues.